Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 41 events. Showing 31 - 41.
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- A rare June hurricane strikes Canada’s Gulf of St. Lawrence killing 35.
- The Mali Federation gains independence from France (it later splits into Mali and Senegal).
- The so-called “red telephone” link is established between the Soviet Union and the United States following the Cuban Missile Crisis.
- Watergate scandal: An 18½-minute gap appears in the tape recording of the conversations between U.S. President Richard Nixon and his advisers regarding the recent arrests of his operatives while breaking into the Watergate complex.
- Ezeiza massacre in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Snipers fire upon left-wing Peronists. At least 13 are killed and more than 300 are injured.
- ABC News correspondent Bill Stewart is shot dead by a Nicaraguan soldier under the regime of Anastasio Somoza Debayle. The murder is caught on tape and sparks an international outcry against the regime.
- The Argentine Corbeta Uruguay base on Southern Thule surrenders to Royal Marine commandos in the final action of the Falklands War.
- Asteroid Eureka is discovered.
- The German Bundestag votes to move the capital from Bonn back to Berlin.
- Andrea Yates, in an attempt to save her young children from Satan, drowns all five of them in a bathtub in Houston, Texas.
- The Wikimedia Foundation is founded in St. Petersburg, Florida.
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